Tag: TC
Shrunken unicorn Fair cancels car leasing to Uber drivers
When Fair laid off 40% of its staff in October, CEO Scott Painter promised it wasn’t shuttering leasing services to on-demand fleets. But just a week later, Painter was removed and replaced in the interim with Adam Hieber, a CFA from Fair investor SoftBank. Today, according to two sources, Fair…
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Is your startup using AI responsibly?
Ganes Kesari Contributor Ganes Kesari is a co-founder and head of analytics at Gramener. He helps transform organizations through advisory in building data science teams and adopting insights as data stories. More posts by this contributor When and how to build out your data science team Since they started leveraging…
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Advocating reform, activist investor Elliott Management takes a $2.5B stake in SoftBank
The activist investment firm Elliott Management has steadily amassed a $2.5 billion stake in the headline-grabbing, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank even as a series of missteps battered the company’s share price. Famous for its investments in companies like Slack and Uber and infamous for betting billions on the co-working real…
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Women are the secret ingredient in Latin America’s outsized returns
Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an angel investor and bestselling author of nine books that have been published in more than a dozen countries. An early employee at Twitter, she was called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired and holds an MBA and other degrees…
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15 Tickets Left to TechCrunch Winter Party Tomorrow
On February 7, aka this Friday, the Bay Area startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech startups at the 3rd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party. Lucky for you, we have just 15 tickets left! They’re available on a strictly first-come-first-served basis, so if you…
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After Iowa caucus flub, can tech be trusted in elections?
An app intended to speed up reporting of election results for the Iowa caucuses has failed spectacularly, not only confusing the electorate but perhaps poisoning their feelings toward making any technological “improvements” to the voting process whatsoever. TechCrunch staff reporters Brian Heater, Jonathan Shieber, Zack Whittaker, Devin Coldewey and Ingrid…
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